Best Time Lag Poems

Written for Jan Allison, who then decided I should share it for poop verse afficionados.
True story, by the way.....

There are some jobs where heeding worker's safety is required
and during operations must be suitably attired
environmental hazards mean that everyone conforms
and wearing full length protection has now...

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I am at your mercy, entity of the forest,
Longing , burning to understand your hostile ways! 
For it is merely a moment in time,
Bound by your strange presence,
That I realize you are much more than what meets the gaze,
Of every endearing fright, 
I understand your...

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With bicycles and a big shoulder sling bag
You were there, at the other side of my fence
Throwing the paper toward me with a smile
Awarded me with a wonder-stricken time lag

I remember, you were ten and I was eight
It was in 1940, our first met
So soon...

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The reason that she didn’t come to my last poetry reading
Was that I had but faintly praised her hat.
It was a monstrous thing which  Mrs. Thatcher,
 the Queen most certainly, would have shunned.
It was sort of like a jerry-built bird’s nest
Jammed full of something...

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We want to rub him out, blot him from the face of the Earth,
Feed what’s left to the worms and let them claim his worth.

        OK, I’m in, but how do we go about it? Tell me what’s...

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How to See Back in Time

By Elton Camp 

To time travel like Dr. Brown & Marty McFly
Is impossible and we know the reason why
Some speed limits we may exceed & curse
But not the speed limit of the entire universe

Nothing material may exceed the speed of...

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Late for marriage





Loneliness engraved deep into my heart, I now am a mere stone. Many springs bloomed and autumns saw greens turn into orange, twilight of dusk brought no light of love as years passed by. No better than a piece of brain, I am...

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WAIT

time lag

p a t i e n t l y

shy ugly  duckling

cold and sad he wants death

seasons change reveals mused swan 

"timed doorway to breakthroughs: patience"


(c) Olive Eloisa
11:56 am
June 03, 2014

Contest Name	CREATE YOUR PYRAMID!
Sponsor	Nette Onclaud
Theme: hourglass...

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When time flies, feelings of euphoria,
spur jaw-dropping habitus within,
vision of nirvana on groundswell earth,
chirping bird amber tone on hedgerow,
cacophony that piercing aural backdrop,
riotry of wild bewitching warble,
golden fronted leaf, black nape oriole, 
northern red bishop,
snapshot or sedation, honey dribbled spatula,
that ladles satin eardrums,
as momentary plot...

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Rolf was born in Wallertheim, in an optimistic year
Progress seemed to be everywhere, and not much to fear.
Then the reds took Russia, shook the world to the core
Millions killed when in power, a crime you can’t ignore

Drafted in World War One, every moment was a...

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make a wish and wait
manifestation follows
time lag our blockage

07-February-2021...

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*Image of San Francisco Street Neighborhood by Pixabay.

A Superb Forenoon
This superb forenoon down the avenue,
flower gardens, mostly lawns, up this part.
There's Sammy and Tammy, "How do you do!",
naught Baker's ... close, Cooke's, love their fine art.

In view, ol' Freddie sits at the bus stop,
this superb...

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Please, dear, join me tonight - 
Perhaps, for a delight, 
Popping, exploding loud,
Puffing up like a cloud. 
Probing in a fresh bag,  
Precisely, no time lag, 
Pull a ring.  Make me proud....

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Imagine thus:
Each soul stardust


No matter then
That where and when


Here we come now
We know not how


Chaos frames tell
Just where we dwell


In surge and sag
Observe time lag


Good turns to bad
And vile feels glad


Bad dies to good
A change of mood


Now do you see
What's yet to be?


Pandora plays
With spectrum...

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